Where did they go from here

Description

Have you seen Amazon.com’s product pages? Amazon is a great example of visitor retention through recommendations. All of Amazon’s pages have a “Customers who viewed this also viewed”. And how many times have you clicked those links? I know I have!

Now you can implement the same feature on your WordPress blog. Where did you go from here let’s you show “Readers who viewed this page, also viewed” links on your page.

The plugin tracks the pages, posts and custom post types that visitors click through from the current post. You can then display these followed posts automatically at the bottom of your posts, using a shortcode or via the inbuilt widget.

If you’re looking for a plugin that displays posts related to the content, look no further than Contextual Related Posts.

Key features

Automatic: The plugin will start displaying visited posts on your site and feed automatically after the content when you activate the plugin

Shortcode: Use [wherego] to display the followed posts

Widget: Find the Followed posts widget to display the posts in your theme’s sidebar

Manual install: Want more control over placement? Check the FAQ on which functions are available for manual install

Exclusions: Exclude select posts and pages from the list of posts. Exclude posts from select categories from the list of posts

Supports all post types: The visited posts list lets you include posts, pages, attachments or any other custom post type!

Styles: The output is wrapped in CSS classes which allows you to easily style the list. You can enter your custom CSS styles from within WordPress Admin area

Customizable and extendable: Extendable via filters and actions. Style with CSS or use the inbuilt plugin API

Thumbnail support: Display thumbnails as well as text. The plugin tries multiple methods to fetch a thumbnail or you can even specify a default one

Screenshots

Options in WP-Admin - General options

Options in WP-Admin - Output options

Options in WP-Admin - Thumbnail options

Options in WP-Admin - Custom styles

Options in WP-Admin - Feed options

Meta box in Edit Posts screen

WordPress widget

Installation

WordPress install

Navigate to Plugins within your WordPress Admin Area

Click “Add new” and in the search box enter “Where did they go from here”

Find the plugin in the list (usually the first result) and click “Install Now”

Manual install

Download the plugin

Extract the contents of where-did-they-go-from-here.zip to wp-content/plugins/ folder. You should get a folder called where-did-they-go-from-here.

Activate the Plugin in WP-Admin.

Goto Settings » WZ Followed Posts to configure

FAQ

If your question isn’t listed there, please create a new post in the WordPress.org support forum. I monitor the forums on an ongoing basis. If you’re looking for more advanced paid support, please see details here.

Installation Instructions

WordPress install

Navigate to Plugins within your WordPress Admin Area

Click “Add new” and in the search box enter “Where did they go from here”

Find the plugin in the list (usually the first result) and click “Install Now”

Manual install

Download the plugin

Extract the contents of where-did-they-go-from-here.zip to wp-content/plugins/ folder. You should get a folder called where-did-they-go-from-here.

Activate the Plugin in WP-Admin.

Goto Settings » WZ Followed Posts to configure

How can I customise the output?

Check out the settings page for a wide array of settings that let you customise the plugin output. You can also style the followed posts list using CSS. The following are the main classes that can be styled:

wherego_related: CSS Class on all pages

wherego_thumb: Class that is used for the thumbnail / post image

wherego_title: Class that is used for the title / text

wherego_excerpt: Class of the span tag for excerpt (if included)

You can add the CSS code in the Custom Styles section of the plugin settings page or in your theme’s style.css file. To find out the detailed list of available styles, check out the HTML output of the generated code.

Shortcode

Use [wherego] to display the followed posts

Manual install

echo_wherego()

Use <?php if ( function_exists( 'echo_wherego' ) ) {
echo_wherego(); } ?> to display the followed posts.
You can also use this function to display posts on any type of page generated by WordPress including homepage and archive pages.

This function takes an array of options similar to the shortcode above.